I genuinely have no idea what the rules are on any instance, except that calling Putin a slag will get you banned off the tanky ones.
If I can’t find your rules in the app, you don’t have rules. Simple as that
And actually follow them. Seen too many bad admins/mods that apply rules unequally or even incorrectly.
Edit: If your rules aren’t valid any more or don’t mean what people understand them to mean then change them, or clarify.
Imo the best method is to make a detailed post, and have it pinned, and have a summary in sidebar linking to post. if community is on piefed, you can keep detailed in wiki, and have a pinned post and sidebar both have summaries. I am a rss feed user, and a pinned post helps there (it will likely be the oldest post that will always be served)
There are times where I’ll see someone mention something is against the dbzero site rules, so I’ll spend like 10 minutes trying to find and always come up blank. Like apparently it’s a site rule to tag gen AI content
[], but I couldn’t tell you where that’s written down.The solution is less rules.
This is such an underrated point. When your rules are buried in a wiki, people genuinely can’t find or understand them, so they just post and hope for the best which means way more removals and modmail for you to deal with. The clearest most accessible rules always create the least moderation headaches. I mean seriously I’ve clicked on some rules that are just written like legal documents.
I fall under this category.
I tend to default to a common sense style commenting when it comes to rules, If I see it in the sidebar, then I’ll know that will exist, but I’m definitely not someone who goes out of their way to try to find rules.
Oh is that why every sidebar is empty
Summit user: what sidebar?
“Community Info”, I think
Looks like Mlem wins in that regard.
Where else would they be?
There were several instances where the only thing in the sidebar is the community rules only, no instance rules. At least one instance had rules in post that I don’t think was even stickied in their main instance community or something stupid like that.
I don’t bother reading the rules, because in the vast majority of cases they are vague enough to be uninformative (be nice!) or are so ridiculous that I’d rather just catch a ban than actively read every single rule everywhere to avoid tripping over one stupid community/instance specific rule. The only bans I’ve received across multiple accounts is either due to being a complete asshole (deserved), arguing with a stupid mod, or being banned for something the mod made up in their head to justify banning anyone who down voted a single post in one of their shitty AI slop communities.
I don’t know if you intentionally called me out specifically or not but either way it’s funny and made me reflect.
Edit: my communities are low traffic and low stakes. I don’t like to take mod actions unless absolutely necessary. Broadly we can all understand what it means to be nice, no?
I did end up quoting my instances rules in the sidebar of my biggest (and most unique) community. It basically just boils down to no bigotry or spam, which should almost be implied.
There’s a sidebar?
Yeah, where is this in Voyager?
